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Avrey vs Avry

American parents have registered 1,085 Avrys since 1880, against 659 Avreys. Avry is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Avrey against Avry, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Avrey Avry

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 32 years in which either name was published, Avry for 27 years and Avrey for 5 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Avrey Avry
Total US births 6591,085
Most in one year 5164
Babies in 2025 under 519
Estimated living today 6501,100
Median age today 1815
Peak year 20062005
Best rank 4,685th girls3,876th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked8,860th
First recorded 19951989
Girls / boys 381 / 278573 / 512

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Avreys alive today are over 18; half the Avrys are over 15. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Avrey and Avry.